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immediately in front of spinnerets a broad transverse bar of the 



same. 



Genus J o t u s, L. Koch. 



21. JoTUS FORMOSus, sp.nov. 



(Plate XXV., fig. 9.) 



(J. Cephalothorax 2--1: mm. long, 18 ram. broad; abdomen 

 2-1 mm. long, TT mm. broad. 



Cephalothorax dark brown, pubescent, high. Cajmt flat, broad, 

 bulging laterally, sloping forward, of a golden-brown tint, clothed 

 with yellowish and golden-brown hairs. Clypeus retreating 

 laterally, sloping abruptly to posterior angle, dark brown, glossy, 

 pubescent. Marginal hand broad. 



Eyei^: anterior row curved, and of these the median pair are 

 much larger than their anterior neighbours; the pair comprising 

 the second row are minute and are seated slightly nearer to the 

 posterior than the anterior row; the posterior eyes are scarcely as 

 large as the lateral eyes of the anterior row, but they are pro- 

 minent and bulging; anterior eyes surrounded with long golden- 

 brown hairs; quadrangle wider than long. 



Legs moderately strong, tapering, hairy, armed with strong 

 spines, dark brown with exception of lower joints, which are 

 yellow with dark brown annulations; tarsal claws and scopul^e 

 dark brown. Relative lengths : 1, 4, 3, 2. 



Palpi long, reddish-brown, similar in clothing and armature to 

 lesrs; jjenital bulb small. 



Fakes short, rounded at sides, flat in front, dark, apices reddish- 

 brown. 



MaxilUe long, broad, convex, yellowish, apices rounded oft". 

 Labium short, broad, apex truncated; base dark brown, apex 

 3'ellovvish. 



Sternum ovate, slightly convex, dark Ijrown, hairy. 



Abdomen rounded in front, acuminated behind, longer than 



wide, hairy : colour in front dark brown followed by a broad, 



transverse Ijand of Ijright yellow, then a narrow transverse bar of 



dark brown, succeeded by another of golden brown; apex dark 



